setup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from setuptools import setup
import re
import os.path

dirname = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
filename = os.path.join(dirname, 'podcastparser.py')
src = open(filename).read()
metadata = dict(re.findall("__([a-z]+)__ = '([^']+)'", src))
docstrings = re.findall('"""(.*)"""', src)

PACKAGE = 'podcastparser'

MODULES = (
    'podcastparser',
)

AUTHOR_EMAIL = metadata['author']
VERSION = metadata['version']
WEBSITE = metadata['website']
LICENSE = metadata['license']
DESCRIPTION = docstrings[0]
LONG_DESCRIPTION = open('README.md').read()

# Extract name and e-mail ("Firstname Lastname <mail@example.org>")
AUTHOR, EMAIL = re.match(r'(.*) <(.*)>', AUTHOR_EMAIL).groups()

setup(name=PACKAGE,
      version=VERSION,
      description=DESCRIPTION,
      long_description=LONG_DESCRIPTION,
      long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
      author=AUTHOR,
      author_email=EMAIL,
      license=LICENSE,
      url=WEBSITE,
      py_modules=MODULES)